◇ image via WikipediaWeldon Irvine
Weldon Irvine is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Richard "Groove" Holmes and Freddie Hubbard. Those roots explain a lot about how Weldon Irvine arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Johnny Hammond, Gary Bartz and Jack McDuff, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nina Simone, Q-Tip, Mos Def, Black Star and Talib Kweli, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Weldon Irvine, reaching back through Richard "Groove" Holmes and forward to Nina Simone. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Weldon Irvine connections
Weldon Irvine grew out of Richard "Groove" Holmes and Freddie Hubbard, shares an orbit with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Johnny Hammond and Gary Bartz, went on to shape Nina Simone, Q-Tip, Mos Def and Black Star. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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